Background technique
Power facility for generation of electric energy or mechanical energy can comprise heat engine, and for example, internal-combustion engine or external-combustion engine are as gas turbine engine or Reciprocating engine or other machine.
Above the power facility of the type of mentioning generally includes air inlet and air draught loop, and air inlet is used for providing inflammable air in the heat engine of power facility, and the air draught loop is used for providing cooling-air on the outer surface of same heat engine.Such power facility usually need to move in the season of thermal environment or heat, and especially, may require they every day or the hottest in concrete season (for example summer) in peak power is provided.When the power facility comprised gas turbine, disadvantageously, along with the intake air temperature to the power facility raises, the electric power that turbine can generate reduced.This needing to have caused the entrance refrigeration system, and it comprises the air inlet place that is installed on the power facility, particularly the one or more heat exchangers in air filter unit.
Traditionally, there are three options can be used for cooling such heat exchanger: machinery or evaporation or absorb.Machinery is cooling reduces the intake air temperature to optimize the output of heat engine with mechanical compress.Evaporative cooling is sprayed water in the turbine inlet air stream, wherein, and water evaporation, thereby cooling-air.Absorb the thermal source that cooling use is extracted from the waste gas of heat engine usually, provide to drive the required energy of cooling procedure.
In all above-mentioned situations, cooling procedure is at heat exchanger downstream generation condensed water.Such water usually is considered to industrial waste and therefore is discharged in waste liquid treatment station.
Alternatively, the water that is produced by cooling procedure be recovered and recirculation to be used in other industrial use of power facility.For example, in comprising the power facility of gas turbine, use such water from the known closed circulation of U.S. Patent number 5390505, it is essentially softened water, by water is injected in the zone of combustion of gas turbine, in order to realize the increase of output power, conservation of fuel and nitrogen oxides (NO
X) reduce.Solution mentioned above allows to improve the efficient of gas turbine but has also shown some inconveniences.In fact, add to be used for to cause in the loop that gas turbine is introduced condensed water the corrosion-damaged and thermal stress in hot-zone section in gas turbine to increase in the power facility, and therefore to have caused the service intervention increase, this means the power facility is stopped transport.Therefore, overall availability and the reliability of power facility will be reduced.
Air inlet place's insertion water-recorvery apparatus at the power facility can cause a large amount of condensed waters to produce usually.In some cases, when requiring a small amount of condensed water, (for example, 0.5-3 m
3/H), this solution may be inconvenient and its need to obtain another condensation water in the power facility.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of power facility, it comprises the condensed water recovery plant, and the condensed water recovery plant allows from humid air recycle-water mobile the power facility, thereby has optimized total efficiency and minimized the water waste.
According to the first embodiment, the present invention is by providing a kind of power facility to achieve this end, this power facility comprises: heat engine, for the inlet duct of sending flammable first fluid in described heat engine with for the ventilation circuit of sending cooling second fluid to described heat engine, first fluid and/or second fluid are included in water wherein; Wherein, the power facility also comprises water-recorvery apparatus, water-recorvery apparatus is connected with inlet duct and/or ventilation circuit and is used for from first fluid and/or second fluid condensation and collects water, water-recorvery apparatus is associated with at least one heat exchanger, at least one heat exchanger and inlet duct and/or ventilation circuit hot connecting are used for cooling described first fluid and/or described second fluid extremely surpasses (beyond) its dew point, water-recorvery apparatus also comprises connection set, and it is used for and will be delivered to watering equipment from the water of first fluid and/or second fluid condensation.
According to another favorable characteristics of the first embodiment, watering equipment is open ring type.
According to another favorable characteristics of the first embodiment, watering equipment comprises: heating equipment, and it is used for the water generates steam from being separated and collected by water-recorvery apparatus; And, the steam expansion device, it is used for from described steam produce power.
By being provided for from the first combustible fluid or from the second ventilation fluid or from the equipment of first fluid and second fluid recycle-water, the present invention allows to generate easily desired recovery current according to the needs of power facility.If required a large amount of recycle-waters, water-recorvery apparatus is connected with inlet duct, and randomly is connected with ventilation circuit.If the power facility needs the recycle-water of reduction, water-recorvery apparatus only is connected with ventilation circuit.Under latter event, can be by obtaining institute's water requirement than inlet duct being connected to desired those modifications simpler and that cost is lower of water-recorvery apparatus in existing power facility.
The present invention allows to optimize the total efficiency of the power facility that comprises the equipment that uses recycle-water, particularly when watering equipment is open ring type, for example, comprise for generation of the heating equipment of for example boiler of steam and be used for equipment from the energy-producing steam expansion device of such steam.The low-temperature receiver that transmits cooling capacity for the heat exchanger to water-recorvery apparatus of the present invention can be any type: machinery, evaporation or absorption.Another object of the present invention is to develop a kind of method of efficient of the power facility for improvement of comprising heat engine.
According to the second embodiment, the present invention is by providing a kind of method to realize this another purpose, and the method comprises the steps, it makes the inlet duct of at least one heat exchanger and heat engine and/or the ventilation circuit hot connecting of heat engine; The operation heat exchanger is with cooling first fluid mobile in inlet duct and/or the second fluid that flows in ventilation circuit, and first fluid and/or second fluid are included in water wherein; Make described first fluid and/or described second fluid to surpassing its dew point in order to be condensate in wherein water; Collect water from first fluid and/or second fluid, improve the efficient of described power facility with condensed water.
According to another favorable characteristics of the second embodiment, use the step of condensed water to comprise condensed water is delivered to the combined cycle power unit and/or be delivered to for generation of the unit for treating water of drinkable water and/or be delivered to heating equipment for generation of steam.
Realize above with reference to the described same advantage of the first embodiment of the present invention by the second embodiment.
Embodiment
Referring to the embodiment of Fig. 1 to Fig. 5, power facility 1 comprises: heat engine 2; Inlet duct 3, it is used for sending flammable first fluid to heat engine 2; And, ventilation circuit 4, it is used for sending cooling second fluid to heat engine 2, and first fluid and/or second fluid are included in water wherein.Usually, first fluid and second fluid are humid air.When heat engine 2 was gas turbine, the flow rate of the second fluid in ventilation circuit was lower than the flow rate of the first fluid in inlet duct.For dissimilar heat engine 2, for example, the reciprocating combustion machine, the flow rate of the second fluid in ventilation circuit 4 can be greater than the flow rate of the first fluid in inlet duct 3.
Heat engine 2 can be all kinds, all needs to be supplied flammable first fluid and ventilation circuit 4.For example, in the known embodiment of power facility 1, heat engine 2 is Reciprocating engine.In the embodiment of the power facility 1 shown in Fig. 3, heat engine 2 is gas turbine engine, and it comprises upstream air compressor 2a, downstream turbine 2b and the burner 2c between upstream air compressor 2a and downstream turbine 2b.In the embodiment of Fig. 1 to Fig. 4, heat engine 2 comprises draught flue 12 and is connected with generator 13.
In another embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 5, heat engine 2 is the combined cycle power unit, and it comprises steamturbine and stram condenser 2d, and stram condenser 2d is cooling by the second fluid in ventilation circuit 4 at least in part.
This power facility 1 also comprises: water-recorvery apparatus 10, they are connected with ventilation circuit with inlet duct 3 to be connected and are used for from first fluid and second fluid condensation and collect fluid, water-recorvery apparatus is associated with the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40, the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40 respectively with inlet duct 3 and ventilation circuit 4 hot connectings, be used for cooling first fluid and second fluid to surpassing its dew point.The first heat exchanger and/or the second heat exchanger for example are made of air-coil.
The first heat exchanger 30 has guaranteed in thermal environment or in the hot season that especially flammable first fluid is cooled in order to make the maximizes power that is generated by heat engine 2.
In addition, the combustible fluid that is supplied to heat engine 2 need to be filtered impurity to avoid damaging or the member, particularly rotating member of excessive wear heat engine 2.
In order to guarantee required combustible fluid quality, power facility 1 also comprises entrance air treatment system 5 on the suction side of inlet duct 3, intake air processing system 5 comprises the first heat exchanger 30 and respectively at one or more filtering modules 6,7 of the upstream and downstream of the first heat exchanger 30, filtering module 6,7 is used for removing solid impurity and/or other impurity.Intake air processing system 5 can be arranged as various configurations, and this depends on the specific requirement of power facility 1.For example, intake air processing system 5 can comprise one or more collapsible shields, for the protection of intake air processing system 5 to avoid inside even from weather.In certain embodiments, the upstream filtering module 6 of intake air system 5 comprises for the HEPA and/or the ulpa filter that remove respectively bacterium and virus from the humid air that enters into the first heat exchanger 30.
Randomly, also can require to filter in ventilation circuit 4.(Fig. 1, Fig. 4 and Fig. 5) under these circumstances comprises that the upstream filtering module 40a of HEPA and/or ulpa filter is located at the upstream of heat exchanger 40.
For with the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40 refrigeration, power facility 1 comprises low-temperature receiver 31,41, and low-temperature receiver 31,41 is connected respectively to the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40, is used for extracting heat from first fluid and second fluid respectively.
In the embodiment of Fig. 1 to Fig. 5, low-temperature receiver 31 is made of absorption refrigeration cycle, and absorption refrigeration cycle is connected to heat recovery steam generator 35, and heat recovery steam generator 35 has a plurality of pipes of thermo-contact discharging flue 12.
The pipe of heat recovery steam generator 35 extracts heat energy to be used in absorption refrigeration cycle 31 uses from the waste gas of gas turbine.The absorption refrigeration cycle that is formed in the low-temperature receiver 31 in the embodiment in Fig. 1 to Fig. 5 is well known in the art and does not therefore describe in detail.For example, in an embodiment of the present invention, absorption refrigeration cycle is the water-ammonia type.
In the embodiment of Fig. 1 to Fig. 5, low-temperature receiver 41 is mechanical-type, comprises compression stage (not shown), and it is well known in the art and therefore describes no longer in more detail.
Generally speaking, for scope of the present invention, low-temperature receiver 31,41 can be any type, also comprises evaporation type, generates appropriate cooling capacity as long as be respectively heat exchanger 30,40.Consider the specification of power facility 1 and require to select low-temperature receiver 31,41 type.For example, must consider usually can condensation from first fluid and second fluid the water yield be less than from the water yield of other fluid condensation.For example, when heat engine is gas turbine, can be from the water yield of second fluid condensation lower than the water yield from the first fluid condensation.Therefore, under these circumstances, when needing the condensed water of less amount, only the second heat exchanger 40 is located in the ventilation circuit 4 of power facility 1.
In the embodiment as in Fig. 1, wherein the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40 all exist, and ventilation circuit 4 comprises entrance zone, threshold zone, and entrance zone, threshold zone is used for receiving humid air to atmosphere opening.In the embodiment as in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, wherein only the first heat exchanger 30 exists, the entrance zone, threshold zone of ventilation circuit 4 directly is connected with inlet duct 3 or intake air processing system 5 in the downstream of the first heat exchanger 30, is used for being received in the same dried air that inlet duct flows towards heat engine 2.In the embodiment as in Fig. 4, wherein only the second heat exchanger 40 exists, and the entrance zone, threshold zone of ventilation circuit 4 directly is connected with inlet duct 3 or intake air processing system 5, is used for being received in the identical humid air that inlet duct flows towards heat engine 2.
When having arrived the dew point condition in the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40, collect water from first fluid and second fluid Separation of Water and in the bottom of the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40 respectively.Water-recorvery apparatus 20 comprises connection set 25,26,27, and it is used for and will be delivered to watering equipment 20 from the condensed water of first fluid and/or second fluid recovery.Connection set 25,26,27 comprises supply pump 27 and pipeline 25,26, and pipeline 25,26 is used for providing water from the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40 to pump 27 respectively.Condensed water is delivered to water customer equipment 20 by pump 27.Randomly, between pump 27 and water customer equipment 20, provide water-treating equipment 50 to enter into the quality of the water of water customer equipment 20 with improvement.
In the embodiment of Fig. 1 to Fig. 5, watering equipment 20 is open ring type, that is, the condensed water that reclaims from first fluid and/or second fluid is delivered to use equipment, and it also no longer re-uses in heat engine 2, but sends to other use equipment of power facility 1.
In certain embodiments, watering equipment 20 comprises heating equipment, and it is used for the water generates steam from being separated and collected by water-recorvery apparatus 10.For example, in the embodiment of Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, watering equipment 20 comprises the heating equipment for generation of steam, and it is made of the heat exchanger 35a that the floss hole along heat engine 2 is arranged at heat recovery steam generator 35 downstreams.Alternatively, in other (not shown) embodiment, such heating equipment is made of boiler.The steam delivery that is produced by such heating equipment to steam expansion device 51 for generation of energy.After expanding, then the steam that leaves steam expansion device 51 be delivered to the discharging flue 12 of heat engine 2.Steam expansion device 51 is connected to the second generator 52.
According to another (not shown) embodiment of the present invention, watering equipment 20 comprises the unit for treating water for generation of drinkable water.
According to another (not shown) of the present invention embodiment, watering equipment 20 comprises the combined cycle power unit.
In the third embodiment of the present invention that diagrammatically illustrates, comprise five key step 101-105 for improvement of the method 100 of the efficient in power facility 1 in Fig. 6.
In the first step 101 of the method 100, the first heat exchanger 30 and the second heat exchanger 40 and the inlet duct 3 of the heat engine 2 of power facility 1 and/or ventilation circuit 4 hot connectings of heat engine 2.In the second step 102 of the method 100, heat exchanger 30,40 operations are with cooling first fluid mobile in inlet duct 3 and/or the second fluid that flows in ventilation circuit 4, and first fluid and/or second fluid are included in water wherein.
In the third step 103 of method 100, make first fluid and second fluid surpass its dew point to be condensate in water wherein.
In the 4th step 104 of method 100, collect the water from first fluid and/or second fluid condensation.
In the 5th step 105 of method 100, the condensation recycle-water is for improvement of the efficient of power facility.
In the corresponding embodiment of method 100, the 5th step 105 comprises sends condensed water to the combined cycle power unit and/or is delivered to for generation of the unit for treating water of drinkable water and/or is delivered to heating equipment for generation of steam.
The present invention allows by providing a kind of water-recorvery apparatus to realize purpose mentioned above and advantage, and this water-recorvery apparatus allows to generate required condensation flow for any configuration of power facility or operating conditions.In addition, the present invention allows to reach additional advantage.Especially, method mentioned above can be used for having the power facility now by comprising that at existing power facility water-recorvery apparatus according to the present invention is rebuild.
This written description use-case comes open the present invention, comprises preferred embodiment, and also makes those skilled in the art can put into practice the present invention, comprises the method for making and using any equipment or system and carry out any merging.Scope of patent protection of the present invention is defined by the claims, and can comprise other example that those skilled in the art expect.If having from the literal language of claim, other example there is no different structural elements; if perhaps other example comprises from the literal language of claim and there is no the different equivalent structure element of essence, these other examples are expected in the protection domain of claim.